Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Despite still being in her thirties, Olympic gold medallist and British sporting icon, Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, has a wealth of knowledge when it comes to navigating big transitions in life. Having retired from professional sport in 2016, Jess talks about how she had been so focused on being the best heptathlete she could be, that despite being happy to retire, she had no plan B when the time came. However, motherhood had set her on a journey to learning more about the significance of hormonal cycles and changes, and from this a new passion was born! Jess speaks about how she's determined to help women unlock their performance goals and understand more about their bodies, and GP and menopause specialist Dr Louise Newson also joins to discuss the hormonal changes that can occur particularly in midlife.
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| 0:52.4 | Hello and welcome back to the Midpoint. Sports fan or not, if you've lived in Britain for some time, |
| 1:02.0 | chances are you'll recognise today's guest. Dame Jessica Ennishill is an athlete who's |
| 1:06.8 | transcended her sport, not least because she played a pivotal role in one of Britain's biggest |
| 1:11.6 | sporting moments, known simply as Super Saturday. It's certainly a night I will never forget, |
| 1:16.9 | in fact, that whole Olympic Games is a career highlight of mine. And Jess, that night, I think, |
| 1:22.9 | for me, personified everything that was brilliant about those games. In fact, somebody said to me recently, |
| 1:27.5 | if you could live in the shoes of one person for one day, who would it be? And I said, Jess, |
| 1:32.4 | in 2012, when she crossed the line in the 800 metres. I've never told her that. That was, of course, |
| 1:36.9 | the culmination of years of hard work for her. She walked away with the gold medal in the Heptathlon, |
| 1:41.7 | which, of course, means being world-class in not one, but seven events. Many times, not just Olympic |
| 1:46.4 | Games, but World Champions. And then, perhaps more impressively still, with her silver medal, |
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